Geisha is always called beautiful even if she is not.

Hopes are like hair ornaments. Girls want to wear too many of them. When they become old women they look silly wearing even one.

This is why dreams can be such dangerous things: they smolder on like a fire does, and sometimes they consume us completely.

Of course, a sign doesn't mean anything unless you know how to interpret it.

I tried to continue, but somehow my throat made up its mind to swallow – though I can’t think what I was swallowing, unless it was a little knot of emotion I pushed back down because there was no room in my face for any more.

Sometimes," he sighed, "I think the things I remember are more real than the things I see.

We can never flee the misery that is within us.